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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

November I, 1940

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RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER, Cleveland, Ohio, joint chair-
man United Jewish Appeal and United Palestine Appeal,
and Vice President Zionist Organization of America.

"The 'no-third' term tradition has been vindicated by a
century and a half of American experience, and it is particularly
important in these days, when the indispensable-one-man-rule
is exalted in so many parts of the world at the expense of the
democratic faith in laws and institutions rather than in persons,
that it should not be repudiated.

"Only one consideration would have warranted a change
of attitude if the opposition candidate, in this case Mr. Willkie,
would have been an isolationist representing a foreign policy
at sharp variance with the sound and courageous one which
President Roosevelt has been prosecuting.

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"In such a case, the vital interests of civilization, now being
threatened would have outweighed any other consideration.

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"Fortunately, Mr. Willkie has expressed himself clearly and
unequivocally in favor of tendering maximum aid, short of
war, to Great Britain."

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E JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER, New York, N. Y., former Justice
of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court,
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tends to break down respect for statutory laws, so the deliberate
disregard of a sacred American tradition will in my opinion,
be a signal for permissive concentration of political power in
the hands of one individual.

"Willkie's background and expressed policies should lead to
the restoration of tolerance and cooperation between capital
and labor, and among the various racial and religious groups
in this country. Industrial cooperation and a spirit of brother-
hood arc the first requisites for national unity and a virile
America."

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ROGER W. STRAUS, New York, Co-chairman National
Conference Jews and Christians, and trustee Hebrew Uni-
versify of Palestine.

"I am supporting Wendell Willkie's candidacy for President
because he is a true liberal, neither a reactionary on the one hand
nor a radical on the other. His liberalism is in keeping with
the American ideas of individual liberty and free enterprise.

"He has proven his ability as an administrator and organizer.
Increase and acceleration of production present our greatest
problems and in such a field he provides inspired leadership."

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LEWIS L. STRAUSS, N
and President Jewish

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principally and abyve all
necessary to reaffirm the
presidency and the false
could lead us into dictat

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York; ARTHUR I. LEVINE, New York President of Beth Jacob JAMES H. BECKER, C
Distribution Comm
Hospital.
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"As a businessman, I fervently hope that Wendell Willkie
5 and blue prints of tanks. I am through with mere politicians.
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will be elected President of the United States. His election will
I have seen France and England suffer from them. Willkie is
is an indispensable condi
mean confidence that increased production can be sold, that a
E a great and liberal executor. To save my country from the profit can be made which will enable such increased production which the Constitution 1
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vote for Willkie."
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t h e improvement in business. I look forward to more jobs, in
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BENJAMIN BUTTENWEISER, New York, N. Y., President
New York Federation of Jewish Charities and treasurer
Jewish Welfare Board.

"Among the issues in this, one of the most vitally important
campaigns in all our history, are: whether to preserve or de-
stroy our traditional American principle against a third term
for President, with all that its violation implies and whether
our national defenses are to be built up promptly and ade-
quately to a point commensurate with our position as the
leading nation in this troubled world, or whether there are
to be continued delay and division of responsibility in meeting
this dangerous emergency.

"Predicated on an objective analysis of these issues and the
record and utterances of the two candidates, I think our coun-
try's future is the better safeguarded through the election of
Mr. Willkie, whose very rise in life typifies the success still
attainable in this land of opportunity by one possessed of his
qualities--integrity, intelligence and courage with which to
cope with the stupendous problems, both national and inter-
national, which now confront our country and which, unfor-
tunately, the President and his Administration have so dismally
failed to solve."

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LESSING J. ROSENWALD, former chairman of Board of
Sears Roebuck and Co., and former President of Philadel-
phia Federation of Jewish Charities.

"I am supporting Mr. Willkie primarily as a protest against
the third term. Affairs abroad have demonstrated what can
happen as a result of perpetuation of an individual in office.

"Democracy is sufficiently strong to make it unnecessary to
adopt such a dangerous practice for its own preservation. No
dictatorship can result from rotation in office of the principal
executive.

"This is no time to break a time-honored precedent. A
change is indicated to preserve those procedures which have
proven to be the best and safest for democracy to follow."

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WILLIAM WEISS, President of Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America, Member Executive Committee
of Mizrachi.

"The No Third Term tradition is more than a convenient
political slogan. It strikes at the essence of the future of Ameri-
can democracy and freedom. Just as a breach of moral laws

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CECILE LEHMAN, Mrs., New York, Trustee Montefiore
Hospital and Trustee New York Federation of Jewish
Charities.

"Although I am a Democrat, who voted twice for President
Roosevelt, I shall vote for Wendell Willkie this year, because
I believe he is better equipped than Roosevelt for the Presidency
in these critical times.

"Being primarily a self-made business man of wide experience
and free of political commitments, Willkie will put government
on a business basis, place the country in an adequate state of
preparedness and employ only the most competent men for that
purpose. And, above all he will be a democrat in the finest sense
of the word—a democrat as understood by the great patriots
of the U. S."
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ISAAC D. MAGNES, brother of Judah L. Magnes, Chancellor
Hebrew University in Palestine.

"After a great deal of thought, I have decided to cast my
vote for Wendell Willkie, although I have been a lifetime
democrat.

"The reason for my changing over to the Republican party
is a firm conviction that what this country needs is a genius
at organization, a talent the President does not possess. My
study of Mr. Willkie's record and character has convinced
me that he is the man to accomplish the almost superhuman
task of co-ordination of which this country is sadly in need.

"With the election of Willkie, I feel, will come a new hope
and rejuvenated spirit to animate the people and carry them
to a future with a firm base of work and prosperity."

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WILLIAM J. SHRODER, Cincinnati, Ohio, President National
Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.

"I intend voting for Mr. Willkie because I believe his
election will end wasteful experimentation, danger of one man
power, disregard of constitutional and traditional rights of the
legislative and judicial branches of our government, a foreign
policy based on provocative threats with preparation and power
to back them up and the intentional fostering of class hatred.
I believe that he will do all this and at the same time preserve
the social gains--even increase them through less political and
bureaucratic and more economical administration."

LEO GOTTLIEB, New
Sinai Hospital.

"I intend to vote for
for voting for him is th
prepare more effectively
countries under the admi
a third term for Mr. Ro

"I regard national clef,
overshadow all other
should be willing to sw
national defense would
however, I believe that a
be furnished by the ciccti

NATHAN A. HELLER
Association of Bost
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keenly the threat to der
three terms as President
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dent Roosevelt that he
minority interests. becaus
there has never been any
was not a defender an
interests. Mr. Willkie's
yond reasonable challeni
way of life will be assure

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of Sullivan and C i
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